Zaur Dadayev

Zaur Dadayev  was a former police officer of the Republic of Chechnya who was tortured into assassinating Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in February 2015.

Biography
Zaur Dadayev was a police officer of the Russian Federation from the Republic of Chechnya, and he was later tortured by the Kremlin Rights Council of Russia into agreeing to assassinate opposition leader Boris Nemtsov along with Anzor Gubashev. On 27 February 2015, Dadayev and other men gunned down Nemtsov in the shadow of the Kremlin as he walked to a peace rally protesting against the Ukrainian Civil War, and they were later arrested after their car was found abandoned. Dadayev and Gubashev were charged with the assassination of Nemtsov, and fellow Chechens Shahid Gubashev, Bakhayev, and Eskerkhanov were also tried for assisting in the assassination, but they were not charged.